[DS] Universal DS Homebrew thread. Fucking cheapskates.

I'm terribly disappointed in the homebrew department of the DS. So far, I've tested quite a few of the more popular applications and nothing is all that impressive.

ScummVM has all sorts of display and sound problems and can't run the newer games. DSOrganize is pretty handy but looks like crap. Moonshell seems quite powerful at first glance but is a pain to use (who needs drag & drop windows on such a small screen?) and converting videos so you can watch them stutter in super crappy quality on the DS doesn't seem right. I spent a couple of hours with Tower Defense, but it's still pretty buggy and gets boring fast. Emulation isn't nearly fast enough even for NES at times. I don't understand how anyone can expect to play SNES or Genesis games at decent speed on the DS anytime soon.

I now use my R4 for game backups and nothing else. Homebrew on the DS is in its infancy. If you're into these kinds of things, you absolutely need to get a PSP. That's where the Homebrew scene is really at right now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shaolin Samurai

That's funny - I have 62 SNES roms on my M3 Lite, and 51 of them are running at full speed with near perfect sound and fully visible layers, with working SRAM saves and savestates.

I guess it all depends on your own definition of "full speed" and "near perfect sound".

By all means, Chrono Trigger does not run at full speed nor is the sound anywhere near perfect in SNEmulDS 0.5b. In fact, the game suffers from massive slowdown, lacks transparency effects and the constant croaking and hissing that is supposed to be music is unbearable.

I guess you can live with that if you're a masochist and never played the original, but I wouldn't want to spoil the experience of such an awesome game with crappy DS emulation.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm not here to argue with you and DS owners have all the right to be excited about this proof of concept.

I've tested the latest version of SNEmulDS quite extensively, but it's nowhere near as accurate in terms of emulation as PC emulators or even Snes9x on the PSP. At this point, SNES emulation on the DS is still defective in comparison. That's all I was trying to say.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Here's how skinning your R4/M3 works:

By default, you get 12 directories in _system_\themes\ - these are for having a different theme for each month, from January (\theme01\) to December (\theme12\). They change automatically according to your calendar.

Alternatively, you can cycle through these themes manually.

If you want to use a single skin, it's safe to remove the \themes\ directory altogether and just put the theme files in the _system_ directory.

A theme consists of these 4 files: backgrd_1.bmp, backgrd_2.bmp, icons.bmp and logo.bmp. If you want individual text/selection colors, there's an optional theme.ini file to go along with the theme (same directory).

An awesome theme to use with the R4/M3 is Duotone. It was originally created for the M3 Simply, but comes with replacement graphics for R4. There's also a Moonshell version of Duotone, grab it here.





I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Damn those microSD cards are getting cheap now. It still puzzles me how they can fit up to 2 Gigabytes on a thing as small as a thumbnail. I just recently bought a Kingston 2 GB microSD card with SD adapter for my R4DS for 15 (!) Euros (~ US$).

Now if only Sony's Memory Stick Pro Duos were a little less expensive ...

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Get a R4 or M3 Simply (pretty much the same thing), it suits your needs perfectly and is incredibly easy to use. The only downside to those carts is the lack of GBA backup (SLOT-2) support.

From my personal experience, emulators and homebrew in general aren't much fun on the DS, though. If you're serious about playing oldschool SNES and NES games, you'll need to get a PSP instead.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

OK, so what does the CycloDS Evolution do what my R4 doesn't already?

FELIPE NO

$20 for a 1GB microSD is far too expensive. You should be able to find 2GB ones for about the same price.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

As long as they have DLDI auto-patching and regular firmware updates, any flashcard is fine.

How does the CycloDS user interface look like, btw? For some reason, the official site doesn't seem to have pictures.

Jam it back in, in the dark.